cscott added a comment.
(And I agree with @Tgr's response to @Lydia_Pintscher that this issue isn't
directly related to MCR. In my mind it is about what "output types" and "input
types" are available for templates/extensions during preprocessing. Currently
extensions can output a wikitext
srishakatux added a comment.
This proposal is selected for the #developer-wishlist voting round and will be added to a MediaWiki page very soon. To the subscribers, or proposer of this task: please help modify the task description: add a brief summary (10-12 lines) of the problem that this
Tgr added a comment.
This is not really a workaround - MCR deals with data storage and access, this would deal with data extraction from wikitext. That's necessary whether we have MCR or not. Blocking it on MCR just makes the situation worse - it is already a big jumble of various groups waiting
Lydia_Pintscher added a comment.
I think we should invest 0 time in workarounds when we know the proper solution is MCR and know that we need to invest time in that. The more we ease the pain of not having MCR the harder it is to get it done. It's already hard enough as is.TASK
